Sunday, December 4, 2011

Wow, 2 weeks into December already! Where has this year gone?I have just completed my first ever cake decorating course. It was great, but....... I want to do the Wilton ones in Auckland!! I will be saving up for at least one of these next year, and hopefully will get to go early in the year. I was pleased to know that having self taught myself, I have done really well, there were no major points at which I went "oops shouldn't have been doing it that way!". I'm excited to have another cake to order on the cards and a logo being created.Another course on my MUST do list is the Tempt cupcake course. I think that the 4 of us in the Northern Suburbs cake decorators club should go (won't take much to twist their arms) :) On that note, I set up up a cake decorators club for those of us in the northern suburbs as there is nothing this side of town. We have had two meetings and it's been a blast. In the last meeting we made fondant figures, ate too much and talked A LOT more. Sometime next year will probably align with the NZ cake decorators guild. We are hoping that a few more people will join us and eventually we will get the opportunity to run a few exciting workshops. Do you know someone who lives in the Northern/Mana area and loves to have fun with cakes? Send them to my facebook page Nicola's creative cakes and leave a msg :)

Spread the word friends, if you want a cake or cupcakes or know someone who will need a cake or cupcakes made I'm the one to come to! :)

Keep watching for more xmas cakes and cupcakes, there may even be a few mini cakes popping up soon! :)

This was a delight to make and turned out so well. This cake is a moist chocolate cake (with eggs). A lot of my baking does not involve eggs as both my children have serious egg allergy. On this occassion, the receiver of this cake requested a cake with eggs :)

A thanks to the wonderful Liz from Ems Gems has to be given who the helped out with cake toppers as I was very limited with time for this cake.

Friday, October 14, 2011

Stats for this cake:2kg of red fondant1kg of grey fondant (coloured by hand)A ball of white, yellow and black fondant (coloured by hand)4 moist chocolate cakes (egg & dairy free and so yummy)Vanilla buttercream icing (made by hand), who know's how much, 3 large mixing bowls worth!8 hours of creativity and hard work to create the final master piece :)

The car cake had to be done for Daddy. I can't remember how long Marcus kept the fondant cars for, but he was not at all pleased when they finally broke. We arrived back from Taupo in the evening around dinner time, and I made this from scratch for the following day - Graeme's birthday! I was pretty pleased with my effort even if it was a bit messy around the edges.﻿

After much deliberation I have decided to make myself a blog about my hobby. Cake decorating and cupcake decorating would be my no.1 hobby. Although my children and husband would probably tell you it makes me grumpy (when I have a deadline for a cake) I LOVE creating cakes for others.

Self-taught I am my no means an expert, but a real novice with a passion.

I hope you enjoy sharing my cakes and creations with me, as I document my journey in getting creative in the kitchen.See you around and hopefully enjoying the taste of some of my creations

About Me

A Mum to two handsome preschool boys, an early childhood teacher and a student (ece/primary through Massey University)I somehow find time to make the occassional cake/cupcakes. I am a self taught novice. Cake decorating is my hobby. I LOVE IT! :)
I mostly created cakes using fondant and cupcakes using buttercream icing.